In the New Testament, pharmakeia carried with it the idea of sorcery, occultism, and black magic
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I've never been comfortable with that medical staff....
Same here, I remember being a kid and thinking it was weird and "why would the medical profession be associated with snakes???" Now I know why.
Do you not know history? Did you not think to seek the answers that made the most sense, instead of referring to imagery that is much more recent than the source?
There are two reasons that stem from two places:
“Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Make a snake image and mount it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will recover.’ So Moses made a bronze snake and mounted it on a pole. Whenever someone was bitten, and he looked at the bronze snake, he recovered.’” -Numbers 21:8-9
The other one comes to honor the fathers of medicine who were huge parts in the revolution of modernized medicine, Hippocrates II and Asclepiades, named from the Ancient Grecian hero and god (lower case G) of healing, Asclepius, son of Apollo who was said to have a snake entwined staff.
Thank you for the high effort rebuttal to fake news
I'll even go a step further and say that this was created in the 1850s by Eliphas Levi, which people may know as an (in)famous occultist, for his book Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie (you're damn straight I'm just copy/pasting that name).
His reasons for adding the Caduceus (the staff of Hermes more specifically used for the symbology) were -- apparently and to be a bit reductionist -- to signify "balance". It goes deeper than that, but I don't particularly make it a point to delve too deeply into that stuff beyond the historical aspects, I just wanted to point out why it is used in an 1850s depiction that spawned other versions of it by posers.
Rather than pointing towards what essentially amounts to a modern day depiction of a creation that has only been traced back to as far as 1098 (and was, in 1307, what Philip IV accused the Knights Templar of worshiping in order to arrest them) and what many scholars seem to believe was actually the (false) prophet Muhammad [according to the Brittanica], if you can believe that spicy bit of information, people should instead be looking towards Ancient Greece and Biblical references to understand, both which predate the first known use of Baphomet by at an absolute minimum a thousand years.